Dereje Shiferaw (PhD)Jemila Wudu2024-04-302024-04-302022-08https://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/2900Boiling water to create steam is a crucial step in the process industries. An important part of this process boiler drum water level control. For a variety of reasons, it's crucial to keep the drum's water level at the proper level. When the water level is too high, the steam purification equipment floods, which allows water and contaminants to leak into the steam system. The effectiveness of the treatment and recirculation function is decreased by a too-low water level. It is typically challenging to control the drum water level of the boiler due to the system's significant disturbance (like steam disturbance), nonlinearity in mathematical modeling, strong coupling between input and output parameters, and multivariable features. To overcome this problem a sliding mode controller with fuzzy logic controller (FSMC) is proposed. Also PID and SMC applied to the system in contrast. Since the drum water level controller's task is to level the boiler drum at startup point which is 10 perunit and keep it there at steady steam load. The results prove that sliding mode controller with fuzzy leads to better performance in overshoot, settling time and chattering effect elimination than PID and SMC controller. There is no overshoot in FSMC or 0 overshoot, has quick settling time which is 41.9228sec and no chattering effect. However, sliding mode controller exhibit fast rise time which is 13.1080sec than PID and FSMC which is 30.9 and 15.1947sec respectively. Also exhibit high chattering effect. This conduct is improper for a mechanical force or other physical indication. Additionally, in this work it is proven that when the amount of steam mass flow rate disturbance increase, achieving desired trajectory using PID controller decrease. But a desired trajectory can be achieved using SMC and FSMC whenever the steam mass flow rate disturbance increases. The water level control system is verified and simulated using MATLAB software.en-USDrum level controlsliding mode controlfuzzy sliding mode controlThesis